I am trying to use Spiceworks to inventory and run reports more but am having trouble finding a report that pulls info for only active workstations. When our computers were reimaged we ran NewSID and gave the machines new names to avoid any conflicts on the network. When i run the OS version report its showing much more XP boxes than we actually have - I assume this is because Spiceworks is counting both the old and the new computer name in the system. Without going thru and deleting all the unused accounts, can i pull a report that only counts the active accounts / workstations?

i am basing this off of the fact that there are too many XP boxes and too many total, i havent run any numbers to compare and really find out. I thought that was because they were getting picked up twice from the name change, but now I am thinking it looks at the mac address for the NIC and since many of our older machines have the on-board and an upgraded card they are getting registered twice that way maybe?

i think i am just going to build a report that sorts the OS version and has a field for when the last update was then sort by that, the ones with no update are not active... unless you ahve a suggestion to weed out the extras.

Assuming it's able to get all the information from a scan, there should be something unique to each machine - service tag, serial, etc. I'd create a report that lists those and see if there are duplicates, and start clearing those out.

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